My dear madame, your household really needs a USB turntable.
Okay, this is scary - it's like you're in my head! :-) I've been ogling them. Especially the ones that claim they can put the files directly onto an iPod! (I'm a little dubious, however, unless they've got better software than what I use. I can't always trust RipEditBurn's track splitter; it tends to mistake pauses in a song for a sign that the song is over and a new one has started, and it sometimes has trouble recognizing that a new track has begun if there's continuous applause.)
It's just a relatively low priority for me right now. Once we get a new receiver, we can hook up the turntable and listen to records indefinitely - they have a longer shelf life than, say, cassettes. I've been digitizing a number of my old cassettes, especially things that I can't get on CD or mp3, like the "Alice" soundtrack or the Technical Difficulties albums.
Next I want to get a video card and an external hard drive and a whole new computer and digitize some stuff we have on VHS, like the Enya music videos and the Shining Time Station Christmas special and heaven only knows what else.
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Okay, this is scary - it's like you're in my head! :-) I've been ogling them. Especially the ones that claim they can put the files directly onto an iPod! (I'm a little dubious, however, unless they've got better software than what I use. I can't always trust RipEditBurn's track splitter; it tends to mistake pauses in a song for a sign that the song is over and a new one has started, and it sometimes has trouble recognizing that a new track has begun if there's continuous applause.)
It's just a relatively low priority for me right now. Once we get a new receiver, we can hook up the turntable and listen to records indefinitely - they have a longer shelf life than, say, cassettes. I've been digitizing a number of my old cassettes, especially things that I can't get on CD or mp3, like the "Alice" soundtrack or the Technical Difficulties albums.
Next I want to get a video card and an external hard drive
and a whole new computerand digitize some stuff we have on VHS, like the Enya music videos and the Shining Time Station Christmas special and heaven only knows what else.